Thank you very much! :3 Yeah, it's sad - earlier I was reading Making the web fun again by the founder of Neocities - and that was in 2013, a time that in hindsight still seems more fun and authentic than the web we have now - who wrote:
Instead of having adventures into the great unknowns of the web, we instead now spend most of our time on social networks: boring, suburban gated communities, where everybody’s “profile” looks exactly the same, and presents exactly the same content, in the same arrangement.
It's kind of ironic that social media profiles effectively replaced the personal website (or personal blog?) but then because of the way they gated their content, it became necessary to have a bunch of them, so instead of having one place to link to which represents you, there were several, at which point... wouldn't a website be much easier? Just think what we might have if those resources had been put into making website building accessible to the non-coder. Sigh, anyway.
I never actually had MySpace, but I spent my formative years on Gaia Online, where you could do a *lot* of customisation to your personal profile - as was basically seen to be standard in those days - particularly if you knew CSS. Which I didn't, but instead of learning (maybe there was a lack of tutorials, or maybe I just assumed it would be complicated and difficult?) I developed a weird resentment of CSS which I think contributed to the fact that I never learned it properly until 2015 xD On Gaia I basically just inserted a bunch of images and tweaked some basic settings to make things look more customised ^^;
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Date: 2023-07-08 12:14 pm (UTC)Instead of having adventures into the great unknowns of the web, we instead now spend most of our time on social networks: boring, suburban gated communities, where everybody’s “profile” looks exactly the same, and presents exactly the same content, in the same arrangement.
It's kind of ironic that social media profiles effectively replaced the personal website (or personal blog?) but then because of the way they gated their content, it became necessary to have a bunch of them, so instead of having one place to link to which represents you, there were several, at which point... wouldn't a website be much easier? Just think what we might have if those resources had been put into making website building accessible to the non-coder. Sigh, anyway.
I never actually had MySpace, but I spent my formative years on Gaia Online, where you could do a *lot* of customisation to your personal profile - as was basically seen to be standard in those days - particularly if you knew CSS. Which I didn't, but instead of learning (maybe there was a lack of tutorials, or maybe I just assumed it would be complicated and difficult?) I developed a weird resentment of CSS which I think contributed to the fact that I never learned it properly until 2015 xD On Gaia I basically just inserted a bunch of images and tweaked some basic settings to make things look more customised ^^;